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Belonging across the Bay of Bengal
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Michael Laffan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-19 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Belonging across the Bay of Bengal discusses themes connecting the regions bordering the Bay of Bengal, mainly covering the period from the mid-19th through the
Crossing the Bay of Bengal
Language: en
Pages: 365
Authors: Sunil S. Amrith
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-07 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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For centuries the Bay of Bengal served as a maritime highway between India and China, and as a battleground for European empires, while being shaped by monsoons
InterAsian Intimacies across Race, Religion, and Colonialism
Language: en
Pages: 178
Authors: Chie Ikeya
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-09-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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In InterAsian Intimacies across Race, Religion, and Colonialism, Chie Ikeya asks how interAsian marriage, conversion, and collaboration in Burma under British c
Pelagic Passageways
Language: en
Pages: 518
Authors: Rila Mukherjee
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Primus Books

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Due to the frontierization of nation-states, maritime historians have tended to ignore the northern Bay of Bengal. Yet, this marginal region, now dispersed over
Slave in a Palanquin
Language: en
Pages: 204
Authors: Nira Wickramasinghe
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-17 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also a